You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
ALAN PERLISYou’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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